• Kalothar@lemmy.ca
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        6 hours ago

        Some older Italian Americans, what is this a racism/xenophobia validity check?

        Edit: apologies for jumping to any undue conclusion, I initially thought you were feigning ignorance

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          12 hours ago

          Christ three replies where no one actually answers their question directly and you’re dragging them?

          OP - Wop = without papers

          It’s a epithet against Italians who immigrated to the United States.

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            12 hours ago

            Thanks! Seems a bit dated to still be racist against Italians nowadays, I thought they mostly moved on to different ethnicities by now.

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              12 hours ago

              Yeah it’s older for sure, but my friends grandma got called that in like 70s and beat some lady up for it. Cop let her go.

              That’s how I learned about it from a deep Italian American family.